Hi iam 39yrs old and on 30 dec was told i had breast cancer in my left breast but docs not sure how big they say its 1 inch but could be bigger so iam going for a mri scan hopefully next week my head is all over the place at the mo
I am so sorry you have joined us, madmax. It is a massive shock when you hear the diagnosis. It gets better and the shock fades. Be kind to yourself. You will find lots of help on this site.
Wendy x
Hi Madmax, sorry to hear of your diagnosis right on New Year (although any time of year is not good). You will feel better once you get some more information and a plan of action. I was diagnosed in July and started chemo in August. Just finished on December 9th and can’t believe how fast the time has gone.
If you need to have chemo there are plenty on here who can give you advice and will tell you it is do-able.
Do come back and let us know how you get on.
Debs
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Hi Madmax, sorry to hear of your diagnosis right on New Year (although any time of year is not good). You will feel better once you get some more information and a plan of action. I was diagnosed in July and started chemo in August. Just finished on December 9th and can’t believe how fast the time has gone.
If you need to have chemo there are plenty on here who can give you advice and will tell you it is do-able.
Do come back and let us know how you get on.
Debs
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Hi Madmax, so sorry to hear you’ve been diagnosed - any time is a bad time but it’s worse when everyone else is celebrating and you just feel as though your life is on hold.
Trust me though, you’ll have your ups and downs and this shi**y disease has a lot of downs, but you will come through these first few dark days.
I was diagnosed on December 15th (I was 45 on December 12th) and had surgery on Christmas Eve, coming home on Christmas Day. I’ve got my first meeting with the oncologist next Wednesday to discuss my chemo. I’d never have believed only three or four weeks ago that I’d be feeling as level headed about it as I do now (although I do have my weepy moments).
Just let it all out when you need to, scream, cry, whatever you feel is necessary. And we’re all here for you.
Best wishes,
jane xxx
…hope this helps. I loathe MRI scans which I’d had earlier for hearing problem. Having been told I had a pea sized lump (standard mammogram result)and needed MRI scan - I had a grumble to a medic friend who said: Barbara, if we’d had MRI years ago, diagnosis would have been so much more accurate.
In my case, the MRI showed 3 TINY other lumps - but I’d never have known.
As Alto says ‘shi…y disease’ but…there are loadsa people here who will try and help. We could have a virtual scream, B
Hi Madmax,
Pleased to ‘meet’ you but sorry that you are joining us. Unfortunately yes, there are many of us here already, I was diagnosed last March (found in both sides…they call it bilateral) and have just finished treatment on 30th Dec.
As Alto said, the treatments are doable, not easy and certainly nothing you would volunteer for but necessary and I got a double dose of everything with operations and radiotherapy, thankfully the standard 6 chemos treated both sides at the same time.
You will be inundated with questions and bogged down with all the info as we all are at the beginning of this journey but little by little we get through it, begin to understand it a little and learn to ‘go with the flow’ because by doing that we are fighting back and sticking two fingers up at this dreadful disease.
Good luck on your journey, keep positive (you will get fed up with that phrase soon too lol) and come here to rant, chat, laugh (yes we do laugh too) and just be with people who are in the same boat.
Take Care
Bless
Suze xx
Hey Madmax.
Been there, done that, waiting for the t-shirt to arrive as I haven’t actually had any treatment yet, as only recently diagnosed. The waiting sucks but it’ll be better once you know what the treatment plan is. Until then the monsters have no definable shape and the bu**ers keep changing, but once you know what you’re dealing with, it’s easier to deal with, if you get my drift.
MRI scan is fine if a bit surreal and rather undignified, but not painful. They may inject you with a magnetic dye kind of stuff but I couldn’t actually tell when it was going in, though I know some people find that bit uncomfortable. I was warned, though, that MRI is SO good, it picks up things that the cancer people are just not interested in (like cysts, normal breast changes where breast tissue changes to fat, that kind of thing) so if you find yourself being called for another biopsy for something they’ve found, it won’t necessarily be something worth worrying about! I found that out myself when the MRI picked up lots of cysts and “something else”, which turned out to be a fatty lump. So try not to work yourself into a huge lather if you have to have yet another biopsy after the MRI, the point of the investigation is to learn exactly what they’re dealing with. One good thing I got from that was that the other boob was clear of anything abnormal, so that was a relief almost as big as the worry that there was something else in the other side to worry about.
Know what you mean about the head being all over the place. I think mine dropped off my shoulders at diagnosis (8th Dec) and has been rolling round on the floor ever since!
Anyway, we’re all here for you, and everyone knows what that wait is like because we’ve all been there.
Ask any questions you like, there are no stupid questions.
Hi mad,
I was diagnosed on december 3rd and had WLE and SNB on 30th december so am still recovering from the surgery.
When I had the core biopsy the radiologist was very honest and she told me straight away that on a scale of 1-5 1 being normal to 5 being malignant that my lump was 4-5. This prepared me for the results but was still in shock, then had to wait 3 weeks for the surgery. I was amazed to find myself feeling so calm after the WLE and SNB but this was overtaken by the worry of what the pathology of the tissue removed might further reveal! It is definately a rollercoaster of emotional torment over the first few weeks of tests and results. My head also has been all over the place and how I got through chrismas, days away from surgery I really don’t know,thankfully my daughters helped me do christmas shopping and preparations as i couldn’t hold a thought in my head or just disintigrated into blind panic! Luckily panic went as soon as I woke up after surgery. I am still worried that there is something left behind.
It will be easier to relax more when the results are all in and therapy most likely rads is started as I’m finding the fear of what is going to happen is much worse than what actually does. Keep your chin up and take it as it comes one step at a time.
Best wishes Bev x
Thank you to all of you and WOWi posted this friday afternoon checked sat morning to see and didnt really think i would get that many
If I say so myself, we are a nice bunch!
thank you everyone who as reply to my post